Chelsie started dancing when she was 6 years old at the School of Richmond Ballet. Growing up she received scholarships to train at prestigious summer programs at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Oklahoma City Ballet. She is currently a senior at BYU, where she dances with BYU Theatre Ballet. With BYU, she has had the opportunity to perform ballets such as Serenade, Swan Lake, Paquita, and numerous new works, as well as opportunities to choreograph and teach. Chelsie joined our Danceology team of teachers this year and loves working with young talented dancers as they refine their skills and develop a passion for dance.

Ayley began dancing at age 11, with a focus on modern and contemporary. In 2002, she performed as a dancer in the Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies. By age 14, she had begun choreographing and teaching professionally, continuing to study ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, and hip hop under multiple instructors in the Salt Lake area. In high school, she began training under Ririe Woodbury's Step Up program and began traveling to study from renowned contemporary choreographers across the country. She was offered a scholarship to study Modern dance at the University of Utah, where she continued her education. She has choreographed numerous award-winning pieces for many local high schools, studios, and professional companies, and continues to travel to train in LA and NYC several times per year to keep her own movement vocabulary current. She spends the majority of her time teaching, working for her videography company, improvising at home, and trying to keep up with her 6-year-old twin boys.

Elena Gimenez was born and raised in Madison, Alabama where she started dance at the age of three. She trained extensively in all styles and danced competitively for the majority of her life. Elena then went on to receive her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). There, she performed works by Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Larry Keigwin, and Yin Yue, among others. She has attended summer intensives with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Northwest Dance Project, the Limón Company at Perry-Mansfield, and The Cambrians. In these programs, she worked closely alongside people such as Dante Puleio, Ihsan Rustem, and FLOCK. Elena also has a passion for musical theatre, commercial dance, and choreography, winning numerous awards for her choreography of musicals and competitive pieces. She was a teacher at The Dance Company, Inc. in Alabama for over five years before moving to Utah. This is Elena’s first year as a member of the Contemporary Dance company, SALT2.